Yet Another Letter to the Defender - Who Kills Blacks Nicely?
December 21, 2002
Dear Editor:
Compare these two headlines:
WHITE MILITANT GROUP SLAUGHTERS 750,000 BLACK AFRICAN MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN and BLACK MILITANT GROUP SLAUGHTERS 750,000 BLACK AFRICAN MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
I asked a friend of mine which headline would bother her the more. She told me that the white militant headline would bother her more. Now why is that? What makes the wholesale slaughter of Black Africans by whites more of a tragedy than if Blacks did exactly the same thing to the same number of people? This happened during the 90’s in the Black African nation of Rwanda. If a group of whites carried out that slaughter, would we have not demanded war on the murderers? But who spoke out us when blacks murdered other blacks there?
Why is there a double standard on calls for justice when is comes to us hurting our own?
Robert Oliver
Dear Editor:
Compare these two headlines:
WHITE MILITANT GROUP SLAUGHTERS 750,000 BLACK AFRICAN MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN and BLACK MILITANT GROUP SLAUGHTERS 750,000 BLACK AFRICAN MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
I asked a friend of mine which headline would bother her the more. She told me that the white militant headline would bother her more. Now why is that? What makes the wholesale slaughter of Black Africans by whites more of a tragedy than if Blacks did exactly the same thing to the same number of people? This happened during the 90’s in the Black African nation of Rwanda. If a group of whites carried out that slaughter, would we have not demanded war on the murderers? But who spoke out us when blacks murdered other blacks there?
Why is there a double standard on calls for justice when is comes to us hurting our own?
Robert Oliver
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